Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-04-13
What The Company Viii Do With the Prisoners
Evidence All Rsady-SPscial Legislation 10 Be
Enaeted-0hsr Roads Will PrOb-
ably Investigate.

heard. Many of them were given employ
ment. The road is fully equippe d, and
there is no delay of their movement of
freight No arrests have been reported
since last night. 1t is thought the officials
Of the road are satisfied with the work of
the detectives, and that no more arrests
will be made in this city. Speaking of the
probabilities Of eonyicting the men now in
Jail Special Agent Rue said, this morning,
that of the sixty men now under arrest
there would not more than one, or posi-
bly, two of them, stand any chance of
being shown not guilty. Said he I'VE
| had our evidence so complete that we did
not make an arrest until We had sufficient
proof to show that the man was guilty.
We expect to make eight or ten
MORE ARRESTS or MEN
who worked on the road successfully for a
time and then for fear of detection took
work on other lines. This will swell the
total number OF arrests to 6S or 10" Mr.
Rue said the saddest case in connection
with the arrests was that 0f a man whose
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at the door of his home Sunday night. He
WAS sitting with his wife by the bedside of
his sick child. He appeared 10 be a man
OF more than ordinary intelligence and his
home had an air of refinement about it.
When the officers told him they had a war
rant for his arrest he seemed to realize at
once the disgrace into which he had fallen
and broke down completely. The capture
OF 5. K. Dunlap at DenniSOn, Ohio, yester-
day, particularly pleased the detectives.
Last night he made
\ CONFESSION,
in which hesaid the stealing had been going
on for months. He said he could give the
names of all the men implicated on the
Pittsburg division of the Panhandle, but
was afraid IL do so, his language to the
officer being, Il would give you the names
OF the officers, but great God, they would
kill me. There was no organization among
the robbers, Dunlap said, and no regular
place of work. Each crew worked by it.
self Ii was the common understanding
that every man should take all he could
and dispose of it to the best advantage.
There were
\ NJ AlBEh pf IhlNNifAlaN.
That name applied to those who Teaped
the largest benifits from the rObberries by
giving Others pointers rs to what cars CON
tanned the most goods. These persons
were generously rewarded by less prOmi-
nent thieves after the plundeT had been
disposed Of The fences, Dunlap said,
were located in New Philadelphia, Denni-
son, Steubenyille, Cincinnati and Pitts
burg and also Columbus. NOtwithstand
ing Dunlap's confession officers Of the road
still believe the plunderers were thorough
ly organized and were carrying
on their Tobberies under the
Systematical direction of Sherwood
leaders. When a new man entered the
service of the road, ifthOught to be Of the
ght kind, he was initiated into the gang
with a rigid oath binding him to secrecy.
After initiation it was easy 10 keep him in
check it he began to feel any pangS OF con-
science, broadly limiting that any move
ment would result diSastrOusly, rs rail
roading furnished first class opportunities
for putting men out Of the way. Young
men from the country who were Just begin
ming to run on the road were easiest. They
could be pressed. There was nothing
wrong about stealing from railroad COM
pauies. Being unused to the tricks of old
heads, they were easily led on until so
deep in it that they could not get out if
they wanted.
LEGISLATION FOR THE OCCASION.
4 telegram from Harrisburg, Pa, states
that bill WAS introduced IN the State
Legislature last night, which is intended
10 cover such cases as the railroad rObber-
les brought to light in this city yesterday.
The bill is in the shape of an amendment
TO the penal code relating to breaking or
entering cars or locomotives. At present
there is no specific law for breaking open
car unless it is proved that the car
was forced with intent to commit
felony. The proposed act provides
that any person who shall in the daytime
break and enter any car, cabOOse or loco
motive, or wilfully and maliciOusly. by
dsy OF night, with or without breaking,
enter the same will commit felony what
ever therein. The person so offending shall
be guilty OF felony and on conviction be
fined not exceeding $500 and undergo inn
prisonment by separate and solitary con
| iinement at labor not exceeding four years.
Ot course this cannot apply to the present
cases in Pittsburg, but will cover any that
may occur in the future.
There was n consultation this morning
between Assistant District Attorney Pagan
and John II. Hampton, Esq, Attorney for
the Pennsylvania Company, in regard to
THE INDICTING AND TRIALS
of the prisoners. The trials will be push
ed as speedily as possible. Ii is believed
that a large number of the men will plead
guilty on one or two charges, and thus es-
cape q trial on an accumulation Of
charges.
4 number of the petty fellows whose
stealings were trifling will be discharged
and told to leave this part of the country.
The wages of the men against whom
charges have been made, have been with
held by the company, on the ground that
the men owe much more To the company
than is due them.
Some people wonder why We allowed
these depredatious to continue so long,
said Mr.. Hampton this morning. 1T Is
very easily explained. While it il simple
enough to discover the fact that the freight
/ trains are being robbed, it is not all easy
/ to tell lust where the rObbing is going on.
After locating the particular part OF the
line between Philadelphia and Chicago OF
st. Louis where the crews were stealing,
it took long time to get direct and clear
evidence against the men. We have acted
with prudence and care, and the result will
be conviction in every case"
There is little doubt that the present eN-
| .-,.,,,-, ill laa1 IN others
ON OTHER ROADS.
Some of these are in the Pennsylvania
Company's system and some in the B. K
IO. It is said that the stealing on these
other roads was not confined to box car
freights. Through the aid ofteamsters and
yard agents large quantities of pig iron and
manufactured iron and steel have been
stolen from the ears in Pittsburg and in
several other cities not far away. These
cases will he warked up sOoa.
Tanners Fail
PHILADELPHIA, April l2.-The old
house Of Kirkpatrick, Kinsey 4 Co., tan
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